Karen Bauer

Karen M. Bauer is a managing attorney at the Legal Aid Society of Milwaukee, Inc. in Milwaukee, where her practice centers on student loan law, bankruptcy, debt defense and consumer protection litigation. She also manages Legal Aid’s groundbreaking Right to Counsel project, Eviction FreeMKE. Ms. Bauer is past chair of the Public Interest Law Section of the State Bar of Wisconsin and a former member of the State Bar of Wisconsin’s Board of Governors. She is a Fellow of both theWisconsin Law Foundation and the American Bar Foundation, and has the distinction of being the oldest person to ever win the State Bar of Wisconsin’s Outstanding Young Lawyer award. Ms.Bauer authored two articles in Wisconsin Lawyer on educational debt and has taught many CLE courses on student loan issues. She is a member of the Association for Women Lawyers, NationalAssociation of Consumer Advocates and the State Bar of Wisconsin. Ms. Bauer received her J.D.from the University of Wisconsin Law School, where she was a managing editor of the WisconsinLaw Review.